I am working on a motherboard for a Presario F700 and I think I messed up one of the connectors for the USB/power jack board/chipset.  I attached photo.  I don't mind not using the usb so my hope is that the two sets of wires do different things (one for usb and one for power) can anyone tell me which is for power (or if both are)?  The short one or the long one?  in the photo the connector on the right is the one that is messed up (long wire goes to it) and the connector on the left is ok and the short wire connects to it.  much thanks

[year+ old attachment deleted by admin]Replacement cable could probably be found on ebay or amazon if you can locate the part number for it.

The Red/Black 2 wire plug is power. The other one with 4 wires is the USB cable which is both USB Power and Communications. *From the looks of it, they are powering this DAUGHTER board for the USB through the Red/Black  2 wire plug that has no problem from what you stated. However if this daughter board is a combination USB and Laptop Power connection type daughter board, the USB portion can be disconnected  where you have your arrow pointing to the connector of 4 or 5 wires and LEAVE the 2 wire red/black portion of the cable connected so that you can still charge your battery and run it off of the wall outlet etc. Without a view of the ports on this daughter board I figured I'd mention that. Some are USB only and others have multiple purposes such as ETHERNET, Audio, DC Power to Battery Charging Circuitry, etc and are designed this way with featrures on daughter board so that if cable(s) are yanked from laptop, its not damaging the main motherboard, but instead an inexpensive daughter board which makes for a cheaper and easier repair.

I bought a USB daughter board with cable for a Toshiba on ebay to replace a busted USB port for a customer and it cost me just $20 for a good used one with free shipping. But if you have no need for this USB port and do not wish to replace the damaged cable, I would remove the cable to AVOID damage to the laptop. The laptop will run without this cable, but the USB port will not function.